Fourteen years ago, at a human rights conference in Oslo, I met Julian Assange. From the moment I encountered the wraithlike WikiLeaks founder, I sensed that he might be a morally dubious character. My suspicions were confirmed upon witnessing his speech at the conference, in which he listed Israel alongside Iran and China as part…
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Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host who now has a show on the social network X, has been spotted in Moscow in recent days, leading to speculation in Russia and the United States that he is about to achieve his long-stated goal of interviewing President Vladimir V. Putin. If so, Mr. Carlson would be…
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The Daily Telegraph has long been viewed as the house paper of Britain’s Conservative Party. So, it’s perhaps not surprising that a takeover battle for the 168-year-old paper has mutated into a political struggle within the Tory ranks — one that some commentators have gone so far as to cast as a contest for the…
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A court in Moscow on Friday extended the pretrial detention of an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal who is awaiting a hearing on an espionage charge that he, his newspaper and the U.S. government vehemently deny. The reporter, Evan Gershkovich, 32, who was arrested last March during a reporting trip to the Russian…
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The Iranian regime sentenced Narges Mohammadi, the jailed human rights activist who received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, to 15 more months in prison, her family said on Monday. The news came a day after Iran released the journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi on bail while they appeal their sentences, according to state media.…
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How a social media post landed a 19-year-old student on the Kremlin’s official terrorist list.
The report crackled across the Indianapolis police radio on a recent morning: Two aggressive pit bulls, no leashes in sight, were roaming, a caller complained. Then came an alert about a motorist, possibly armed, en route to Indianapolis, reportedly with homicidal thoughts. Later, the police were dispatched to look into reports of overdoses, suicidal people…
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The widow of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist killed by Saudi operatives at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul in 2018, was granted political asylum late last month, more than three years after she fled to the United States. “I feel great and that I’ve taken the right decision to come to this country,” his…
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Not many outsiders come to Belarhi, a remote agricultural village in northern India. Yet during reporting trips there for the recently published series India’s Daughters, New York Times journalists were always shown great hospitality. On our first trip to the village in March 2022, my colleague Shalini Venugopal Bhagat and I arrived to find Arti…
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Koons did not reply to several requests for comment made by telephone and email to his studio and his gallery, Pace. Golan’s criticism of the Rail over the handling of her essay is one of several recent cases in which writers have accused a publication of yielding to pressure from a subject or killing a…
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